Rajdeep Sardesai

IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai speaks to former Pakistan cricket captain Wasim Akram and Co-chairman and founder of Jubilant group Hari S Bhartia. "Be there when mistakes are made not to blame others," says Bhartia. ...

Badaun gangrape continues to attract political attention with leaders thronging the UP district to meet the bereaved family members of the teenaged victims. Senior leaders inclusing Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, BSP chief Mayawati, LJP president Ram Vilas Paswan are among the politicians who have paid a visit to the...

Telangana, India's newest and the 29th state is born. The new state of Telangana has 10 districts while Andhra Pradesh has 13. Hyderabad is the joint capital of the two states for 10 years and will then go Telangana. While Chandrababu Naidu will be the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh,...

The Special Investigation Team formed by the Centre to probe black money held its first high-level meeting in the national capital on Monday. The meeting was chaired by retired Supreme Court judge Justice MB Shah. SIT Vice-Chairman retired Justice Arijit Pasayat and top officials of 11 high-profile agencies and departments...

Power cuts in Uttar Pradesh after May 16 have been making life tough for people. With the state reeling under acute power crisis, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has blamed the Centre for it. Akhilesh has clarified that the power cuts are not driven by any ulterior motive. IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has got his ministers working and has issued them guidelines and priorities. Modi, who addressed his second Cabinet meet in the past 48 hours, has listed down a 10-point priority list for his government. All ministers have been told to chart a separate 100-day action plan....

Lambasting the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Jitender Singh for his comments on Article 370, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti said that his comments have the potential to divide the state on communal lines. On the other side, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar...

A day after Smriti Irani took charge of the Human Resource Development Ministry, a controversy stirred up over her educational qualification. Even though she is being targeted by the Opposition, Irani refused to comment on the issue. IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai asks the panel of experts whether educational qualification should...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that if Article 370 wasn't there, J&K would not have been part of India. In an exclusive interview to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Omar said, "Article 370 is the link between J&K and India, if it's taken away then what's left?" On...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his first day at work by meeting all the SAARC leaders on Tuesday. Narendra Modi raised issues of terror and the trial in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case in his first bilateral meeting with Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif. IBN18 Editor-In-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai takes question with...

BJP MP Najma Heptullah said that unlike Congress, Narendra Modi was reaching out not just to Muslims but to those who are from the backward class and his slogan is development for all. Najma Heptullah is the lone Muslim face in the Narendra Modi Cabinet and is likely to get...

Narendra Damodardas Modi on Monday took charge as the 15th Prime Minister of India. The 63-year-old Modi was sworn-in on the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan by President Pranab Mukherjee. He will take charge of the office of the Prime Minister on Tuesday morning. ...

Narendra Modi, who was sworn in as India's Prime Minister on Monday, has a 45-member strong Council of Ministers. Out of these, 24 are Cabinet Ministers. Ten are Ministers of State with Independent Charge, while the rest are Ministers of State. He has broken the conventional experiments of ministerial quota...

New Delhi: Journalist-politician Arun Shourie, who is likely to get an important role in the Narendra Modi government, has said that as of now no one knows who will get which portfolio except the Prime Minister-designate. He also downplayed speculations that he met BJP chief Rajnath Singh in Delhi to...

In the first open criticism from within the Congress after the party's crushing defeat in 2014 Lok Sabha elections, former union minister Milind Deora said that Rahul Gandhi's advisors did not have their 'ears to the ground' and those with 'no electoral experience' were calling the shots, but added that...

New Delhi: BJP leader Hardeep Singh Puri rebutted allegations of any controversy over Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's invitation to his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse to attend his swearing-in ceremony on May 26 in New Delhi. "There is no controversy, this is a well...

Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi has said that she is ready to join active politics and will consider the Delhi chief minister's post if she is offered. In an exclusive interview to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Bedi said, "I have expressed by desire to see that a Delhi Assembly gets...

Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal was on Wednesday taken into judicial custody by the Delhi Police in connection with the a criminal defamation complaint filed by senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nitin Gadkari. Kejriwal had alleged that Gadkari was one of the most corrupt leaders of India following which...

Diplomatic overtures have already begun even though the new government is yet to take office. In a first, SAARC leaders have been invited to PM's swearing-in ceremony. BJP on Wednesday said that it was Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi's desire to invite the heads of government of all SAARC countries to...